Keyword: multiple listing service

National Association Announces 2010 Buyer MLS System

National Association Announces 2010 Buyer MLS System

Effective January 15, 2010 Official “Buyer Search-MLS” Announced In an ever evolving quest to provide it’s members with innovative tools and systems, the National Association announced the nation wide roll out of their mandatory Buyer Search-Multiple Listing Service. The new system will provide buyers and buyers agents all the same protections, conveniences and broadcast benefits that property sellers and listing agents ...

Ken Brand | 2009/11/02  | 28 Comments Real Estate

Taking It To The Streets Information Superhighway.

Taking It To The Streets Information Superhighway.

They’re only words. Words. Words are powerful stuff. Words can hurt, elate, destroy, and effect change. They can be designed to do any of these things (and much more) or they can do it without intention. Words can be anything we want them to be. Being a blogger, I’ve become a bit more fond of words lately. I try to ...

Matt Stigliano | 2009/05/07  | 14 Comments Editorials

In Which I Disagree With My Hero

In Which I Disagree With My Hero

I like Seth Godin I really do. I think much of what he has written about marketing is nothing short of genius. And I think his ideas about permission based marketing are right on the on the money. But even our heroes can make mistakes, and I think Seth has made one recently. In a recent post, Seth wrote; Travel ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/04/08  | 18 Comments Marketing

You CAN Make a Difference

You CAN Make a Difference

It Started Last Year In February 2008, I had the honor of chairing the Short Sale Working Group appointed by President Dick Gaylord. A group of REALTORS from all over the country, representing a number of standing committees met to address the issues created by the mounting number of short sales. I just got an email from one of the ...

Bill Lublin | 2009/04/01  | 4 Comments Marketing

New Conversations About Your MLS

New Conversations About Your MLS

The possibilities are endless The MLS Track at Inman Real Estate Connect left my mind spinning with the possibilities that are ahead for our industry and, more specifically, the MLS. I ended up with a few opinions and a bunch of questions to take back to my local Board for discussion. This is where this conversation rightly belongs, after all…with ...

Lisa Sanderson | 2009/01/13  | 14 Comments Highlights

How Stuff Works at NAR

How Stuff Works at NAR

NAR 2008 Day 2 Members Have Issues One of the common threads in blogs written by real estate sales people is a disconnection from the National Association of REALTORS. They feel that NAR is some faceless entity run by anonymous individuals who have some secret agenda that is disconnected from the lives of the working real estate professional. The truth ...

Bill Lublin | 2008/11/18  | 16 Comments Real Estate

I Don’t Want To Start a Fight But..

I Don’t Want To Start a Fight But..

It Seems So Simple When we become REALTORS, we’re supposed to subscribe to a Code of Ethics. Subscribe to as opposed to be restricted by . I always thought it was a good thing. Something to be proud of. A higher standard that we’re willing to be held to. There’s only 17 articles in the Code of Ethics. Only one ...

Bill Lublin | 2008/10/19  | 45 Comments Ethics

The Great Debate

The Great Debate

photo source: Mike Hippie No, not those debates between donkeys and elephants in red and blue states. The great debate in the Phoenix real estate market, and likely in others, is whether our MLS – the Arizona Regional MLS – should have a public home search available. The Houston association has become the standard for such things and in time ...

Jonathan Dalton | 2008/02/02  | 12 Comments Marketing